TWILIGHT IN THE HELDENPLATZ: TWILIGHT IN THE HELDENPLATZ

Paula Hoffman, a TIME researcher, took a trip home to her native Austria after an absense of eight years. On her return to the U.S. she wrote:

In Vienna, the tram conductors are cheerful. They are among the few people who know where they are going these days, and they proudly wear the Social-Democratic party flower on their caps—red tin carnations. The trolleys, which are just as red, again rattle through the streets with people hanging like bunches of grapes from the jammed cars. Lilacs and hyacinths are in bloom, white & rose candles stand...

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